Marcus Wolter has been CEO of Endemol Shine Germany as well as Chairman Northern Europe for the Endemol Shine Group since 2008. He started his TV producer career at the production company MME in Hamburg. During his first years, he significantly contributed to the founding and building stage of the music television channel VIVA in Cologne. As a producer, he was responsible for the show “Vivasion” with Stefan Raab. In 1998, he transferred to the production company Brainpool, where he and Stefan Raab co-developed the pilot for the latter’s show on ProSieben. In 2002, Marcus Wolter sold the music publishing house “Seegang Musik”, which he had founded, and switched to the interactive TV channel 9Live as programming director, where he was appointed as CEO one year later. In October 2008, he switched to Endemol Deutschland as CEO. Ever since, he has founded several joint ventures with various artists. Among those endeavours are the production company “Herr P.” with Jörg Pilawa in Hamburg, “Florida TV” with Joko Winterscheidt and Klaas Heufer-Umlauf in Berlin, the fiction production company “Wiedemann & Berg Television” with producers Quirin Berg & Max Wiedemann as well as the recent “Jukers Media” with news presenter Judith Rakers.